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What we were never taught about Thought
You’ve probably already tried a lot to manage, change, calm or control the thoughts that never seem to leave you alone. This program does something different. It is not another method, or another technique. It's something much more fundamental - an exploration of thought itself that can change how you see everything else. Six weeks. Five exercises a week. A foundation that holds, whatever life brings.
30 inquiries · 5-15 min per day · at your own pace
There’s a reason monks have spent years sitting on mountaintops and in remote temples - and why we tend to think of them as wise. Whatever the tradition, the invitation is remarkably similar: stop. Look closely. Notice what is actually happening, in real time. Not because they have access to something we don’t, but because there is something to be seen when we stop long enough to look - including the difference between what is actually here and what we have learned to believe is true.
Most of us don’t have the luxury of sitting on mountaintops. But what we are exploring here is not so different. And most of us do have five to ten minutes.
We’ve learned that change requires effort. That we need to try harder, do better, manage more, control what we feel and fix what we believe is wrong. And so the search continues - with new methods, new habits and new ways of becoming who we think we should be.
But what we were never taught is the most fundamental and simplest thing of all: what thought actually is. How it affects us. What it affects. And why we suffer when we take our thoughts to be absolute truth and believe that we are our thoughts.
The thing that is right under our noses is the very thing we never talk about.
The purpose of this program is not to give you a new set of beliefs. It isn’t trying to replace one idea with another. Instead, it points towards something you can see for yourself - what is constantly changing in your experience of life, and whether there is anything that doesn’t.
Each day, you’ll get a reminder to stop and look at something as fundamental as thought itself - something most of us have never really been given the chance to examine. Over these six weeks, we’ll keep coming back to what you can actually see for yourself - learning to notice the difference between what is happening and what thought is making of what is happening.
One exercise at a time. Not to give you something new to believe - but to let you look at something that has been there all along.
Five lenses - all pointing towards experience itself.
Thought
Most of us have never stopped to ask: what actually is a thought? Where does it come from? And what happens when we stop believing it? This is where we begin - not to control our thoughts, but to stop being controlled by them.
Feelings
Feelings and thoughts are often treated as separate things. But look a little closer and you may find they are not as separate as they seem. Understanding that changes how we experience feelings - not as something we need to manage, but as something we can begin to see more clearly.
The Body
For those of us who spend a lot of time in our heads, the body brings us straight back to what is actually here. Not through relaxation or breathing exercises - but by actually investigating where you end and the world begins. The answer may be more surprising than you think.
Time
The past can only be experienced as a thought or memory appearing now. The future can only be imagined now. And the present - can you even find it? This is perhaps the most unexpected lens, and often the one that stays with you the longest.
This "me"
This is at the heart of it all. We spend an enormous amount of energy defending, improving and maintaining the image we have of ourselves. It’s exhausting - and most of us can feel it, even if we don’t have words for it. This lens doesn’t ask who you should be. It asks what it is you’re actually defending.
- all pointing towards experience itself
What happens when you see thought for what it is?
Something changes in how everything else is experienced.
The invisible audience in your head - the one that is always watching, always judging, always keeping score - begins to lose its grip. Not because it disappears, but because you stop believing that it is real. And with that, much of what drives anxiety and stress begins to ease: the feeling that you constantly need to perform, prove yourself, defend yourself or stay in control.
We live so much of our lives in our heads - in the past, in the future, in stories about who we are and who we should be. Watch a small child who has just discovered a puddle or a butterfly. For a moment, there is no audience to impress, no image to maintain. They are simply absorbed in what is there. Over time, we learn to see ourselves through imagined eyes - how we look, how we’re doing, whether we’re good enough, whether we’re getting it right. And that direct contact with life, which once came so naturally, can become harder to notice.
What we are exploring here isn’t new. It points back towards something very simple - what was already here before we learned to take every thought about ourselves quite so seriously. We have become extraordinarily sophisticated at studying the content, patterns and effects of thought, while the most basic question remains remarkably difficult to answer: what actually is a thought?
It’s like becoming an expert on waves while the nature of water itself remains a mystery.
That’s what we’re doing here. Asking.
What begins to ease is the struggle. The energy that went into fighting thoughts, fighting feelings, fighting what has happened or what we’re afraid might happen - is freed up. Not because life becomes easier, but because we stop fighting against it.
And when the pressure inside begins to ease - what happens outside often seems to change by itself too.
WHAT'S INCLUDED
The Weekly Structure
6 WEEKS · 30 INQUIRIES
Each day, you’ll receive an exercise in your course portal - five days a week, for six weeks. You’ll also get a simple reminder email to help you keep the thread going.
The exercises don’t build on each other. They are 30 different ways into the same thing. Each week covers all five lenses, and every exercise is practical - designed to let you look for yourself and experience what each lens is pointing towards, rather than simply reading about it.
Some exercises will land more deeply than others, and that’s completely natural. But together, they all point in the same direction - towards experience itself, whatever path you take to get there.
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30 Inquiries
Five per week.
Each exercise takes just a few minutes to read- how long you stay with it is entirely up to you.
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Simple reminders
One simple email a day
- nothing more than you need.
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Your own course portal
Come back whenever you like
- the program will be there for you.
Option 1
What we were never taught about thought
SEK 1,995 incl. 25% VAT
Your own course portal with 30 inquiries
Daily reminders
Option 2
What we were never taught about thought + a 75-minute private session
SEK 3,995 incl. 25% VAT
Your own course portal with 30 inquiries
Daily reminders
Includes a private 75-minute session, available to book from day 21 onwards - once you’ve had time to explore the foundations, so we can go straight to what is actually coming up for you.
FAQ Section
What if I don’t have time?
The exercises are short on purpose - around five to fifteen minutes. And if you miss a day, simply pick it up again the next day. There’s nothing to catch up on.
How long will I have access to the course?
The exercises are delivered through your own course portal, and you’ll continue to have access for as long as I am still coaching and running courses.
Is this like mindfulness, NLP or CBT?
There are similarities - all three are interested in thought and how we relate to it. There are hundreds of different forms of psychotherapy, treatment and coaching, many of them working with the content of thought, patterns of thinking or our relationship to our thoughts.
This program starts somewhere slightly different. Before trying to change, manage or work with thought, we stop and ask the more basic question: what actually is a thought?
That question is where this program begins.
Do I need any previous experience?
Not at all. You don’t need to know anything about psychology, mindfulness, coaching or any of the ideas explored in the course. In fact, you don’t need to believe any of it. The exercises are there for you to look for yourself.
Can I get a refund?
Yes, partially. Because the exercises are released gradually, you can receive a refund for the inquiries you haven’t yet been given access to - but not for exercises that have already been made available in your course portal.
What does the coaching session in Option 2 include?
It’s a private 75-minute conversation with me on Zoom. But it isn’t a traditional coaching session. You book it after day 21, when you’ve already spent three weeks exploring the material for yourself. That means we don’t have to start from scratch. We can go straight to what you’re actually seeing, questioning or struggling with.